About Us

The Belleville Collective is a partnership of talented communications individuals at the top of their game - each person brings something different to the offering which works well as no client brief is ever the same.

The Belleville Collective is a global partnership of talented communications individuals at the top of their game - each person brings something different to the offering which works well as no client brief is ever the same. Specialising in the food, drink, travel and lifestyle industries, our collective breaks down the borders of communications with a skills-led approach. We match experts from our community to clients across the globe providing results driven consultancy and agency services.

Our model is flexible and scalable, so we listen to a client brief and match it with the right skills. The collective aims to reduce costs to clients while keeping work fresh, current and meaningful.

Fiona has over 15 years of PR and communications experience gained from agencies and in-house, predominantly in the food, drink and lifestyle arenas. Fiona loves the creative process, understanding the business, finding the story to tell and then mapping the route to get that story told in a way that genuinely resonates with clients and in the hearts and minds of relevant audiences.

Fiona lived and worked in Paris for several years so it goes without saying that she loves food, drink, travel and, of course, cooking. While her guilty pleasures are a regular dose of Nordic Noir and a gentle obsession with all things Scandinavian, her time in France means she talks from experience when working with (and collecting) wine and complaining about below par croissants. She is always on the hunt for obscure places to do half marathons and *the* perfect cup of coffee.

Originally from Paris, Alexandra moved to London a decade ago to pursue a career in PR. Her experience spans across the food, drinks, luxury and lifestyle sectors. She really enjoys fully exploring and understanding a brand’s story before launching creative campaigns, as she believes this ensures the most authentic and high impact approach.

She has a soft spot for drinks and has passed her WSET advanced in 2015. She has lead UK and international PR and social campaigns for a vast array of wine and spirits brands, these have included generic wine bodies (Beaujolais, Roussillon, Côtes du Rhône) and stand-alone wine brands such as Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne or Producteurs Plaimont. She has also implemented PR programmes for leading drinks groups such as Chivas Brothers and Beam Suntory.

She knows the UK and French media landscape inside out and has stellar relationships with writers and bloggers across trade, travel retail, consumer and national titles. When she’s not working, she enjoys exploring the newest cocktail bars in Paris and London or the latest immersive experiences.

Having grown up around art and architecture, Zoë is a creative thinker with a strong visual aesthetic. A true European Brit, she has spent time living in Italy and France, and is fluent in both languages. With experience collaborating on international cultural projects and events, she has worked in the press and editorial offices of the Venice Biennale, Royal Institute of British Architects and design PR agency Caro Communications, to name a few.

Recent projects include the co-curation of an exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum for the London Design Festival, and work on a show on the fashion photographer Erik Madigan Heck at Sotheby’s, where her flair for art, luxury and design, and little black book of contacts were proven invaluable.

When out of office, Zoë enjoys abstract painting, hunting out vintage finds in Portobello market, and trying out new recipes that she tears obsessively out of newspapers and magazines. During summer holidays you can find her in the Tuscan hills sipping Chianti and enjoying a homemade carbonara among friends.

Ali, our strategy partner, is a PR and communications specialist with over 14 years experience working client side and in agencies. She has a proven track record of delivering compelling stories and influencing behavioural change for high profile consumer brands and niche start up businesses in the health, lifestyle and beauty arena. Her passion for unearthing and creating engaging content, coupled with a tenacious approach, has seen her deliver strategy that tells a distinctive story for clients from beginning to end.

In addition to her PR career, working with the likes of P&G, Weight Watchers UK, Wilkinson Sword and Coca Cola, Ali is a professional fine artist. She works with a bold colourful approach to subject matter. Her work is created to make the eye look twice and the viewer become totally immersed in a piece. This creative flair crosses over to help her facilitate and produce communication content that commands attention. Her ability to look at a brief with a more imaginative lens has consistently benefited client projects, from unexpected brand partnerships and talked about events to straight forward strategizing and distinctive research led campaigns.

Alex is a writer, editor, producer and project manager. She writes a successful blog as well as feature scripts and short screenplays and also works producing both short and promotional films. She also enjoys anything to do with the storytelling process, especially guiding the written word to life through film and has recently produced work for ASDA, Allied Irish Bank and Bloomberg. Alex has had two plays produced and recently placed third in the NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Competition.

Alex lives In Cambridge on a 108-year-old Dutch barge. In her spare time she visits Spain in a mildly obsessive way, plots, reads, writes and can often be found scraping rust off her barge or making espresso martinis.

Meg, our #socialconsultant, is a social media storyteller for the millennial era, a digital marketing expert with a creative edge on cultural trends, memes and user behaviours. With social media a picture speaks a thousand words and Meg’s visual language is next level! She has a Masters in Fine Art Media from London’s prestigious Slade School of Art, combined with an all consuming love of curating online stories and a genuine interest in people. Meg brings soul to social.

Meg developed an online persona #megastar who she describes as an internet mermaid, a modern day myth maker. In this guise Meg has built a powerful brand being approached by the head of the creative concept team at Selfridges & Co. and became the focus of their biggest beauty and online social media hashtag campaign #beautyproject. She also teaches a social media course at Goldsmiths University in London.

Chloé is a wine PR specialist. From designing campaigns to getting smashing results, she’ll spare no detail or effort to provide the best possible service. A passionate ambassador, she loves getting under the skin of a brand and bringing it to life. Chloé has managed UK-centric trade and consumer campaigns, for big-budget generics and smaller producers. She has proudly represented Beaujolais Wines, Pays d’Oc IGP, Plaimont Producteurs, Champagne Jacquart, AOP Reblochon and EuroCaves for many years.

When she isn’t talking about wine, you will most likely find her tasting it. Wine and food are her twin passions, so there’s nothing she enjoys more than roaming London’s wine bars and restaurants – on the hunt for her latest favourite. The only thing she enjoys more than a good wine is travelling and she jumps on a plane as often as she can to discover further countries, cuisines and cultures. And, whenever life allows, she goes back to either France or Tahiti, two places she is lucky enough to call home. She spends what’s left of her time running, playing tennis or practising her sun salutation.

Thierry is a French wine professional who moved from Paris to London, seizing the opportunity to pursue his passion for wine. Thierry has thrown himself into the London wine scene, quickly achieving all 3 WSET certifications and relishing the huge array of wine tastings on offer in the city.

When he is not consulting for top wine retailers and suppliers, Bottle Apostle/Flint Wines etc., or writing copy for PR purposes, Thierry advises French companies on governance strategy and legal project management. Thierry was brought up not far from the French wine region, Cahors, and will passionately argue that French Malbec is far superior to Argentinian! He spends every spare moment discovering new wines.

Lucy is a London-based food, drink and lifestyle photographer. A lover of all things food, travel and culinary related. Specialising in editorial and commercial food photography, she brings stories to life with her pictures ranging from independent street food to Michelin level cuisine and celebrity chefs.

Clients include Rick Stein, Caprice Holdings group, Jamie Oliver, BBC, Good Things, Weetabix, Mindful Chef, Bone Daddies chain, Street Feast and The Tamarind group. Often found in dungarees standing on tables... This is how she gets a lot of her best shots apparently!